Richard Briers Quotes

#1. I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Michael Gambon

#2. I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

Richard Briers

#3. When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.

Louise Hay

#4. My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

Jay Ryan

#5. An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

Richard Briers

#6. Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

Richard Briers

#7. I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.

Richard Briers

#8. Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

Ben Feldman

#9. If this all works which I have read and some of which I have written did happen just one year... the events... wow...wow... what type of serial killer... what type of crazy mad stuff are going to happen... it's just an example of chaos.

Deyth Banger

#10. If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

H.L. Mencken

#11. I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

Richard Briers

#12. We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

Richard Briers

#13. I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

Richard Briers

#14. Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.

Neil Gaiman

#15. I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

Richard Briers

#16. I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

Richard Briers

#17. A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

Richard Briers

#18. I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

Richard Briers

#19. The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.

Al Gore